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A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Courtsey Callby  Dwayne Bricker
During a stormy all-nighter, freelance designer Jen Parker calls her ISP about a sudden outage and reaches Alex, a warm, competent tech support rep "here to help." As he walks her through routine fixes, Alex begins describing objects and details inside her apartment he should never see, growing more intimate and invasive. When the company denies he exists, Jen realizes this isn't customer serviceit's something that's already inside the call.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby  John Boal
A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadline to Deathby  Elliot Stanton
Life imitates art, imitates life, fatally blurring the lines between reality and make-believe. A crime writer struggles to complete a manuscript until he visits the venue of the story's finale. There, he meets an elderly but mysterious female fan who he later finds out knows him much better than he could imagine.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
31 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Young Eric and Molly are having the time of their lives roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Their parents, not so much... (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spiderpocalypseby  Eugene Hattingh
After generations of recon and endless casualties, trillions of spiders across the globe launch a ruthless, simultaneous strike to eradicate the human race once and for all.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Rescue In Earth's Orbitby  Michael J Volpe
A lone astronaut survives an overdue rescue mission and an impossible spacewalkthen returns to Earth with a truth that cannot be spoken.

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Anne's Forever Christmas Treeby  Andrew Bowen, APR
Struck by a soft blue bolt of lightning that gives her mysterious powers, a fir tree that becomes a beloved Christmas tree teams up with the family's Irish Setter to work wonders in the house that leave the baffled family members joyously scratching their heads in gratitude. And when Christmas is over, the magic really happens!

Genre: Family
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cross Wires is a suspenseful story of corporate executive who receives voice messages on his office phone of an international drug trafficking operation within the corporation where he is employed. Faced with a decision of staying silent to what he knows or becoming a Corporate Whistleblower and not only risk his career, however his life.

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Harboring A Fugitiveby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
Senator Marcus has had a long career of staunch anti-abortion legislation, yet a simple conversation with an off-kilter doctor will change his views forever.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Death Sentenceby  Brian Jackson
In a stark cell, a guilt-ridden man haunted by visions of his mother, bride, and daughter must utter the command that becomes humanity's death sentence.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brittle Tromboneby  Mary Goldman
A young girl strikes a bargain to take trombone lessons from an elderly man during the time of Covid-19.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Nothingby  Lamar D. Vine
When a grieving retiree installs an AI life coach to escape crushing loneliness after divorce and loss, he must confront buried rage and rediscover purpose through writing before the seductive voice consumes his identityor lose his last chance at redemption.

Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Magic of Misfitsby  Bill Freas
After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Clella (Pathways Of The Heart)by  Diane Yates
In the Ozark Mountains, a selfless woman of indomitable spirit shoulders the weight of the Great Depression, raising six children and tending the farm while her husband turns to drinking, gambling, and womanizing. When he abandons her, a mysterious guitar player arrives on the scene, and she must choose between loyalty to her past and a possible new future. (Based on a true story.)

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Space Orphansby  Vahid Imani
A rogue pilot crash lands on a new world and becomes the first human to encounter alien intelligence igniting a battle between military survival tactics, ethical restraint, and his unresolved past with the ship's chief medical officer.

Genre: Sci-Fi
39 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Soldier: Operation Christmas Rescueby  David Lee Hooker
When terrorists threaten a beloved holiday parade, an elite team of North Pole commandos led by Captain Dan Hero springs into action to save Christmas and deliver festive justice, military-style.

Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cursed Bathroomby  DJ Robbins
A rude customer encounters the murderous ghost of the cursed bathroom.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Awfully Wedded Wifeby  Elliot Stanton
Love is... a suspicious mind, making the threat of castration a genuine possibility.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Comeback of Irish Bobby Gunnby  Ben Fiore
On the night of his unlikely comeback, a proud, aging boxer refuses a bribe to take a diveuntil his desperate manager claims his life is at stake, forcing the battered fighter to choose between one last shot at glory and a sacrifice that could cost him everything.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When luminous stairways rise worldwide, a grieving scientist descends into one to rescue the lost and discovers the only way to save humanity is to embrace imperfection.

Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In 1991 Panama, still reeling from U.S. invasion, a young Army MP investigator has one explosive weekend to crack a volatile case that spirals from routine call to career-threatening conspiracy, forcing him to navigate military politics, personal loyalty, and the razor-thin line between justice and chaos.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
On The Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
Talk about self sabotage -- these 2 gals are the best! When searching for love and relationships, they lack caring and empathy. It takes a humorous, over-the-hill, overweight Mom who outsmarts her attractive, millennial daughters to successfully find romance.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby  Michael J Volpe
After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a yacht capsizes during a sudden storm, a lone survivor records her final hours aboard a half-sunken vessel, sending video logs to anyone who might find them. As night falls, she notices distant lights beneath the wavesmoving in patterns too deliberate to be natural. With her oxygen fading and rescue signals unanswered, she realizes she isn't alone on the oceanand that what's watching her is waiting for her to drown.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hold Itby  Danny King
A lovesick young man desperately tries to hide his diarrhea from his crush, only to have his best friend expose both his stomach and his secret feelings.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Violinby  Victor Jones
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strings Attachedby  Dennis Manning
When a washed-up musician returns to his sacred studio to write one last song, the guitars he abandoned come alive, forcing him to face the haunting truth about the silence he choseand the music that never died.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
07.07.77by  Serge Mirov
After a first, accidental night together in the summer of 1977, a still slightly drunk, naked young man slips out of his sleeping girlfriend's room to find a toilet, only to get lost in a labyrinthine Soviet communal apartment where every encounter threatens to expose him.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Influencerby  Tom Miller
A hopeful influencer moves to Hollywood to find success, but winds up in a battle royale.

Genre: Comedy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
2 Heart Shuffleby  Bernard Mersier
Sitting on opposite sides of the bathroom door, Laura and Rodney confront their deepest insecurities and unspoken boundaries, ultimately deciding whether emotional vulnerability or possessive fear will dictate the future of their relationship.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Park Benchby  Marc Prey
While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sunday Morningby  Nichole C Moncada
A small town sheriff grapples with her need for vengeance and her sense of justice when her husband's mistress is found dead in her back yard.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
41 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby  Craig Ford
After a brief moment of forbidden tenderness reignites his buried humanity, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must choose between suppressing his desire to surviveor risking death by claiming love in a place built to destroy it.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perennialsby  Donald Lewis
Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a compassionate village librarian inspires children through the timeless wisdom of books, her quiet acts of kindness plant the seeds of hope that transform an entire community for generations.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Raunchy Children's Story (Don't Curl My Toes)by  Larry E Coleman
Before his first scooter date, a father tells his 13-year-old son how he met his mother at a bar and goes into way too much detail.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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